I've answered the same questions about locking effects, and making sure to point Designer Pro a fully 64 bit program to a legacy 32 bit version of Filter Forge because it can not run the 64 bit plugin, time and time again, here at TG, over at the FF forums and privately via pms. I think that spending the time to fix these issues and work with the FF developers is well worth Xara's time. The filter Library at Filter forge.com has nearly 12,000 filters they can generate photo realistic textures, patterns, photo effects and pretty much whatever else one can dream up. Please Xara, work with the FF developers and fix this issue and maybe Xara can become a supported host!